Remembrance Day: Canadian WWI veteran dies of Spanish flu searching for son's grave

As the horrors of the First World War drew to a close on Nov. 11, 1918, the planet was already fighting a new, more deadly war, against an influenza pandemic that ultimately killed as many as 50 million people.

The effects of the so-called Spanish flu are thought to have shortened the war, but the virus claimed the lives of about 50,000 Canadians, many of them veterans who had survived the conflict.

Among those soldiers was Canadian immigrant James Baird Brown, whose love for his son led to him becoming infected by the deadly flu virus. Redmond Shannon has more on his story.

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